#it was….very paul.

[asurrogateblog]

I had a vivid dream that paul also made a flop family-friendly sitcom in the 90’s. it starred him as himself again, and the plot was that he ate a cursed gumball that de-ages him back into a 12 year old, but only sometimes and at completely random intervals, so he has to balance going to school all over again with also being an aging rock star. everyone thinks the young version of him is paul’s secret son that he’s trying to hide the existence of, including ringo who takes pity on this abandoned child and tries to help raise him properly. hijinks ensue in paul’s attempts to prevent people from finding out what’s actually going on

[the-crooked-library]

so within the universe of Dune, gender roles abide by a rigid false dichotomy created by the bene gesserit - men lead the noble houses, while the women may join their order, and the powers of both are kept intentionally separate. at the same time, the plot demonstrates repeatedly that the role of paul atreides as a character is that of the border between the concepts juxtaposed within dichotomies: he is both an outerworlder and fremen, both harkonnen and atreides, both a duke and a disciple of the bene gesserit.

as such, it follows that within the in-universe gender structure, he occupies the roles of both male and female, thus being functionally and societally nonbinary. in this essay, i will -

[parisoonic]

can you draw some more medic and pauling...? I would love them just gossiping

have some doodles! Something something patient confidentiality....

[bowielit]

John: [about his haircut] I've had it on and off for five years. Paul: Yeah. You should've seen it off.

[spiralinaa]

I THINK THEY ROLLED UP THE WRONG MYSTERY TOUR GUYS

[dontletmewaittoolong]

beatles photos where it looks like they’re trying to dispose of a dead body

[ludotpng]

I see the vision

[imeriayapping]

Every time i bring loscar picture to twt i think i should also bring them here, so i present

[kastalani123]

Percy gets his ears pierced with Estelle because she was a little afraid to do it. He proceeds to wear almost exclusively silly earrings, so you have this scarred, war-weary guy with a stare that scares wolves, most intimidating and godly-looking guy you've ever seen — and also there's pom-poms or gummy bears hanging from his ears.

Estelle is very pleased and they usually get matching earrings. Annabeth doesn't want pierced ears so she either gets clip-ons or hair clips to match with them. Claire's is visited religiously. Percy loves it. Sally takes copious pictures. Paul is always ordering earrings online because both of his kids light up like a Christmas tree whenever they get new ones. Life is wonderful.

[menlove]

so you see when I say paul wore women's clothing I'm Not actually joking! crazy! that's a thing he did and I love him more for it

[zombie-bait]

happiest girl in the whole entire world

thinking about my favourite kind-hearted eldritch horror trapped in the body of my favourite traumatized goth girl

(+ purple variant)

[quimiri]

teamfortes :)

[cheesenchalk]

i never know how to phrase it but something about the way beatles biographers and people in general view paul's reflexive placating persona and determination to smooth things over as manipulative or duplicitous and john's reflexive barbed persona and habit of lashing out as brave and subversive despite both being equally defensive mechanisms to shield themselves from the world that resulted in them saying things that weren't true says more about how we culturally view kindness or friendliness as inherently untrustworthy or flimsy and anger and carelessness as more believable as someone's true nature than it says about either of them in actuality

[whumpypepsigal]

Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024) s01e04 “Everything I need is on this boat.”

[userarmand]

PAUL MESCAL as Harry in All of Us Strangers (2023)

"That’s the bit that scared me. When I saw it for the first time in the audience, I asked Andrew if he remembered me doing that. The most illicit moment is not actually the sex, but my eyes looking up to Andrew when I’m about to go down on him." [x]

[sleeper9]

The way he tilts his head and hold his little arms out he looks like a little bird 😫 😭

I love that old man 👴 💋